D’un Lion, et d’un Rat · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: D’un Lion, et d’un Rat
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Belgium; Ancient Greece; Brussels
Description: The image depicts a lion 0trapped in a net and a mouse chewing on the ropes to free the lion. The mouse helps the lion escape because the lion spared the mouse’s life in return for a favour.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Engravings
Identifier: mta:27314
Language: fre
Source Name: Esope en Belle Humeur
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700); F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Image: mta_27314_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Lions; Mice; Nets; Traps